A Very Happy Birthday on the 12th of February to Michael Ironside who played Seevis in the Stargate SG1 episode Crusade as well as well as starring in Seaquest, TopGun, Total Recall and the original V tv series. His resume in television and movies is extensive and lets not forget Starship Troopers and the more recent Terminator Salvation:)
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Erin Chambers who played Sora in three episodes of Stargate Atlantis guest starred on NCIS:LA last week as Jenna Parish in the episode Kill House. It aired in the US on February 5th and is due for broadcast on SKY1 in the UK April 7th.
Affinity is an excellent Teal’c episode despite not being written by Christopher, his characters move off base has been long overdue but it was never going to go smoothly even if Tealc was perhaps the epitome of a good neighbour/samaritan, I don’t think the local community was quite ready for him. His cover of an African visitor brought to the states by Daniel was pretty good and he embraced the tribal heritage which perhaps had a lot of ties to the culture of the Jaffa and he got on very well with Krista and Eric for slightly different reasons. In this respect I think Teal’c was looking for both companionship and the mentoring a youngster, being on Earth limits that aspect of his life.
Cleaning up the neighbourhood
Erica Durance is excellent as Krista the very friendly neighbour and we get hints of Noire as she unintentionally puts Teal’c in a situation where he has the emotional attachment and would defend her to the extreme if required, as it happens the story uses this situation without the manipulation which makes the return to the SGC more heart breaking for Teal’c. The second story with the Trust really adds depth to the episode and that goes partly hand in hand with the continued Sam/Peter romance, the two finally conclude quite well with the Trust now set up as being a significant player in the season. Respect to Brad Shivon as Joe, this wasn’t one of his final performances prior to his untimely death in 2010 aged 39 but it was short and sweet and he made his mark.
Brad Shivon as Joe
We had some audio feedback once again from Brad and a little feedback from our google+ group. This weeks promo is from British Invaders and next week we are in Pegasus with the episode Poisoning The Well which is a strong Carson Beckett episode. If you have any comments about Affinity or any of the Stargate episodes covered or yet to be done then please get in touch, we really can not put a price on community interaction across all the portals open to the fan base. You can find us on Facebook, Google+, iTunes, Stitcher Internet Radio and of course this very website.
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An excellent crop of familiar Stargate faces in “Betrayal” the recent episode of Arrow which aired on the 6th of February.
We’ll begin with the two actresses, Agam Darshi (SGA & SGU) who played Anastasia
and Ona Grauer (SG1 & SGA) who played Vivian. The two actors were Adrian Holmes
(SG1) who played Frank and once again Roger R. Cross who played Lucas.
Once you start looking Stargate has it’s fingers via former performers in so many pies:)
Thanks to @hi9580 for tweeting the link to the forum thread “Greg’s SG Craft” about a Minecraft Stargate. Minecraft Forums
Louis Ferreira plays Oscar Vega in the new Canadian television series “Motive” which co-stars Kristen Lehman and Lauren Holly and premiered last week.
Roger R. Cross and Cameron Bright (both SG1) also appear in the series premiere. The second episode airs on CTV on Sunday.
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We have a couple of Stargate birthdays today, up first the delectable Dawn Olivieri who played Neeva Casol in the Stargate Atlantis episode Identity. She also appeared in True Blood, Heroes and more recently House Of Lies.
Sharing the day is Alex Diakun who was Tarek Solamon in the Stargate SG1 episode Memento, he also guest starred on Sanctuary, Supernatural and the Scifi mini-series Alice.
The first instalment of the new Stargate SG1 action/adventure game is due in March from MGM and Arkalis Interactive. Once again it’s aimed at the tablet market and will include the original actors providing the voice work for some pretty decent graphics.
We have three Stargate birthdays today the 7th of February.
We’ll kick off with James Spader the original Daniel Jackson from the Stargate movie who then made himself a huge tv career via Boston Legal, The Practice and The Office.
We then have one of my personal favourite Stargate characters in Radek Zelenka who was played by the wonderful David Nykl on both Stargate Atlantis and SG1. He has also appeared in Once Upon A Time, Continuum and a number of scifi/creature features including his own The Beast from Bottomless Lake.
Last but not least a happy birthday to Frank Cassini who played Colonel Sean Grieves in the SG1 episode The Sentinel and has guest starred on Continuum, Wolf Lake and Supernatural.
We have two Stargate birthdays on the 4th of February.
We’ll kick off with Mitchell Kosterman who played Colonel Rundell & Special Agent James Hamner in Stargate SG1 and had roles on MacGyver, Smallville and Millennium.
Sharing this birthday is Brandy Ledford, a former model who moved to acting and played Zaren the Tok’ra in SG1 and Norina a Taranian in Stargate Atlantis. She also appeared in Andromeda playing Doyle and had roles in Whistler, Baywatch and NCIS:LA
Rick Worthy who played K’tano in the Stargate SG1 episode The Warrior currently has a recurring role on The Vampire Diaries playing Rudy Hopkins aka Bonnie’s father. Rick has also appeared in Battlestar, Enterprise, Heroes, Voyager and Supernatural.
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I watched the Syfy “b” movie creature feature Tasmanian Devil today and spotted four former Stargate actors in good meaty roles. Up first is Terry Chen (SG1), then Mike Dopud (SGU, SG1 and SGA), Roger R. Cross (SG1) and finally Scott McNeil (SG1).
Mike Dopud
Terry Chen
Scott McNeil
Roger R. Cross
February 3rd Stargate Birthdays for a couple of former SG1 guest stars.
A big bundle of birthday best wishes to Michele Greene who played Laira in the Stargate SG1 episode A Hundred Days as well as Abby Perkins in the classic LA Law.
Sharing the day and thus many happy returns to Terry Chen who was the enigmatic Monk in the Stargate SG1 episode Maternal Instinct. He also had recurring roles in Continuum, BSG and Combat Hospital.
Terry Chen & Michele Greene
I watched Supernatural and Arrow this afternoon and got a healthy dose of two former Stargate actors, the first is Alaina Huffman who played Lt. Tamara Johansen in Stargate Universe as well as Dinah Lance (Black Canary) in Smallville. She played Josie Sands in the Supernatural episode As Time Goes By which aired on Wednesday the 30th January.
My next pleasant surprise was seeing Janina Gavankar in Arrow playing the cop McKenna Hall in the episode Vertigo which also aired on the 30th. Janina is a regular in True Blood and also appeared in The Gates but for our purposes she played Sgt Dusty Mehra in the excellent Stargate Atlantis episode Whispers.
A routine recon through the gate leads to the jumper being disabled by some form of advanced energy dampening device. Stranded on the world the team discover a society of young people no older than 25 who believe that if they kill themselves on their 25th birthday it maintains a community that is too young for the Wraith to being interested in culling. McKay discovers an ancient type device powered by a ZPM which is powering the shield and it’s that which has kept these people safe from the Wraith, maybe should not have turned it off and taken the ZPM to Atlantis. Meanwhile a power struggle between the current leader and next in line leads to an open confrontation between bow and arrow armed youngsters and the P90 equipped SG team while Wraith probes scan the planet for food.
Childhoods End was the only episode of Stargate directed by David Winning and it received many plaudits for the direction. It is a very highly produced episode, the location shooting of the camp is very well done and there is some top notch matt paintings as well a very atmospheric lighting effects. Perhaps the highlight is McKay’s interaction with the two children who pretty much act exactly like kids exposed to new people and new things, intense curiosity classes with the typical McKay intolerance but this time chocolate comes to the rescue.
Atmospheric woodland.
I certainly would have liked to see David Winning direct more Stargate episodes but it never came to pass for whatever reason but everyone involved with this episode worked well and we got an entertaining story with a little backbone although there were certainly deeper aspects to explore if the writers had gone that way.
Peek a Boo
Many thanks to Brad who took time out of his work night to record with us, it was around 3am in Australia and well you can’t buy that commitment:)
This weeks promo is from Tuning Into Scifi TV and next week we are going to discuss the SG1 episode Affinity. We got some feedback from Facebook and a new itunes review from Ryan which we are very thankful for and if you want to get in touch then you can do so via the links on this website or by email. We can also be found under Gatecast on Facebook, Google+, iTunes and Stitcher Internet Radio as well as on Twitter.
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